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A. M. MITCHELL.

- SLEIGH.

No. 278,447. Patented May 29,1883.

i To all whomit may concern:

UNrTE STATES,

PATENT OFFICE.

i l ARDON M. MITCHELL, or FORT LEn,NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR or ONE-HALF.

TO ALEXANDER EBBES, OF SAME PLACE.

SLEIGH.

Be it known that I, ARDON M. MITCHELL, of Fort Lee, in the county of Bergen, and in the State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sleighs, of

which thefollowing is a description in such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as will onable any one skilled in the art to which my inthereon.

vention appertains to make and use the same,

referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked Figure 1 is an elevation of my improved sleigh in perspective when open, and Fig. 2 is an elevation of the same whenclosed or folded together. i

than sleighs now in use.

The object of my invention isto provide a hand-sleigh capable of being folded together, so as to render it more conveniently portable Reference being had to the drawings, A A representthe runners of a sleiglnwhich at their bent endsfit into sleeves B B, in which they can move freely. The runners. are provided with shouldersor other suitable projections, C 0, which will furnish a check or seat on which the bottom ends of the sleeves rest when the sleigh is opened to i ts full width. These sleeves, at their upper ends, are pierced by pivot-pins D D, by means of which the sleeves are fastened to the side bars, E E, in such a mannera that the sleeves are free to turn upon the pins part of Letters Patent No. 278,447, dated ma 'ae, 1883. Application filed October 11, 1882. (No model.)

nected bycross-bars F F, each of which extend from a runner to a side bar diagonally opposite thereto, like the legs of an ordinary cam pstool, as is fully shown by the drawings. These cross-bars are connected in pairs by pivots I. They are mortised in the side bars, and are provided at their lower extremities with hinges G G, by which they are suitably fastened to the runners. The seat of the sleigh maybe made of carpet, or anyot'ner suitable material which is practically flexible-as, for example, two or more boards fastened together by hinges or joints. The shoulders O O are not necessary to the practical operation of my invention; but I prefer to use them to relieve the seat of the tension it would otherwise be subjected to when the sleigh is in use.

Although my invention is designed with espcial reference to hand-slei ghs, itcan of course be appliedwith equal facility to larger sleighs, if desirable.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent- In a sleigh, the combination of the runners A A, the sleeve-joints B B, pivoted to theside bars, E E, the cross-bars F F, provided at their lower extremities with hinges G G, and the seat H, substantially as described, for the purpose specifieda l ARDON M. MITCHELL. 

